Orchard, Dr Kim

MB BS  BSc  PhD  FRCP  FRCPath 

Speciality

Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation 

Sub-speciality

Bone Marrow Transplantation  

Training and Education

Royal Free Hospital
Hammersmith
Institute of Cancer Research 

Experience

Dr Orchard has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since June 2001.

Training in Haematology RFH, HH, West Middlesex
BMT training RFH and HH 

Key achievements

Building an allogeneic stem cell transplantation programme in SUHT taking patients from a large region of the central south coast (10 referral hospitals). Achieving National accreditation of the transplantation programme (‘JACIE’)
Initiated translational research programme using radiolabelled monoclonal antibodies as part of conditioning therapy prior to stem cell transplantation.  

Key awards and prizes

1999: Colin Thomson Research Grant from the International Myeloma Foundation ‘Targeted Radiotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma’.             
2001: Southampton University Hospitals Trust Research and Development Award
‘Targeted Radiotherapy as part of transplant conditioning’          
2003: Wessex Cancer Trust award : Consumables for Targeted radiotherapy trials                          
2006: Wessex Cancer Trust award  
2006: Leukaemia Research Fund Clinical Trial grant  ‘Phase II clinical trial using yttrium-90 labelled anti-CD66  with high dose melphalan in conditioning prior to autologous SCT in patients with myeloma’  4 years, multi-centre study